The bookshelf is the first thing I check out when visiting someone new. It's utterly fascinating to me what other people read, and often adds depth to my impressions of them. I've recently discovered the "what's in your bag?" trend, and that has me captured as well. There's a strange voyeuristic thrill in seeing what other people carry [...]
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Dear Universe: The sickness and poorer part of our vows were not an invitation. I'll have you know that despite pneumonia, cancer, myasethenia gravis, a combined 18 nights in the hospital, more than 10 dashes to the ER, 8 years of at least one and usually both of us as full-time college students, layoffs, hours [...]
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I posted on Facebook that Gem wants to be a dinosaur ballerina when she grows up, and our my cousins responded with shock. The shock, it turns out, was appropriate. Unbeknownst to us, they were in the midst of planning a dinosaur ballerina birthday party for their soon-to-be 3-year-old. Their little girl is even more [...]
Read MoreHe had just completed two flights from Seattle to Newark, then JFK to Rome, and he had just a few hours in Rome before hopping another flight to Istanbul. Somewhere in his rush to see as much of Rome as he could, he zagged when he should have zigged, and found himself in front of [...]
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My husband just returned from a quick trip to Istanbul, where he presented a paper at the International Society for Iranian Studies conference. If you ever wanted someone with whom to discuss the Gothic Sublime, and repetition and imagery in Sadeq Hedayat's The Blind Owl, I've got your man. Also, here's some pictures he took [...]
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As it turns out, this week has been designated Farmers Market Week here in the State of Washington.
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